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No owner or occupant of any building situated within the fire limits of the City shall use the cellar of such building or store goods, merchandise or other articles therein so as to leave less than a three-foot wide unobstructed passage from the front to the rear of the cellar, which passage would be used for the purpose of running a line of fire hose in time of fire. No such person shall permit rubbish or any unnecessary flammable matter to accumulate or remain in such cellar or refuse or neglect to clean such cellar or to remove any of the contents thereof or to rearrange the same upon the order of the Chief of the Fire Division.
(1969 Code Sec. 92.25)
If the Chief of the Fire Division, upon examination or inspection, finds a building or other structure which, for want of proper repair, defective or poorly installed electrical wiring or equipment, defective chimneys, defective gas connections, defective heating apparatus or storage or accumulation therein of rubbish or material, constitutes an extra-hazardous fire condition, he may order all dangerous conditions remedied and all rubbish and extra-hazardous conditions removed. If such officer finds in any building or upon any premises any combustible or explosive material, rubbish, rags, waste, oils, gasoline or flammable conditions of any kind, dangerous to the safety of such building or premises, he shall order such materials to be removed. Such order shall be made against and served personally or by registered letter upon the owner, lessee, agent or occupant of such building or premises. No such owner, lessee, agent or occupant shall fail to comply with such order within the time fixed in such order.
(1969 Code Sec. 92.26)
(a) Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during oar on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.
(b) The application of the penalty provided in subsection (a) hereof shall not preclude the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.